Hacker Uses David Clowney's Twitter Feed to Tell Fan: Kill Yourself

UPDATE: Apparently, David Clowney's Twitter account has been hacked.



The hacker's response to Clowney's apology (via Clowney's Twitter feed, no less), as well as the original post, after the jump.



The original post follows:

Earlier this season, Jets wide receiver David Clowney got himself in trouble when he complained about playing time via Twitter. It appears that he didn't learn his lesson.

On Sunday night, after the Jets lost to the Patriots, Clowney took to Twitter to thank "SOME Jets fans that still support us and show us LOVE." A fan responded that Clowney should spend less time worrying about the fans and less time playing like a word that rhymes with spit. That rubbed Clowney the wrong way and The Jets Blog reports that he fired some venom back toward the previously unheralded Alex L.

The Jets Blog reached out to the team, which said they'd address Clowney's response at some point in the future.

Whatever the response, it's clear that there's a bigger issue going on here than just whether or not it is okay to criticize a player on your favorite team after they get crushed by their rivals.

There's going to be a change in the way players and teams (and entire sports entities, for that matter) use Twitter in the near future. Like other forms of social networking, people jumped all over the new technology and used it to interact with in new and interesting ways. But there's a downside to that which leads to situations like the one Clowney keeps finding himself in this season.

The level of personal interaction isn't worth the potential for embarrassment, which will mean that teams start enacting more and more restrictions about the way players use Twitter and other avenues. It may be a few bad apples spoiling things for the rest, but that's the way these things go when you have employees telling customers to kill themselves.

(H/T The Jets Blog)